Esther 3:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

³ The members of the royal staff at the King’s Gate asked Mordecai, ‘Why are you disobeying the king’s command? ’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Then the king's servants, which were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Then the king's servants who were at the king's gate said to Mordecai, Why do you transgress the king's command?

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Then the king’s servants, that were in the king’s gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king’s commandment?

Common English Bible

³ So the royal workers at the King’s Gate said to Mordecai, “Why don’t you obey the king’s order?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And so, in the third year of his reign, he made a great feast for all the leaders and his servants, for the most powerful among the Persians and the distinguished among the Medes, and for the rulers of the provinces before him,

English Standard Version 2016

³ Then the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you transgress the king’s command?”

Esther 3:3 Tagairtí Cros

Esther 2:19

When the virgins  were gathered a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the King’s Gate.

Esther 3:2

The entire royal staff at the King’s Gate  bowed down and paid homage to Haman, because the king had commanded this to be done for him. But Mordecai would not bow down or pay homage.

Esther 3:4

When they had warned him day after day  and he still would not listen to them, they told Haman in order to see if Mordecai’s actions would be tolerated, since he had told them he was a Jew.

Exodus 1:17

The midwives, however, feared God  and did not do as the king of Egypt had told them;  they let the boys live.